Three new Game Pass games launch on Xbox this week: GRAVHOUNDS on Monday, Pit of Goblin on Tuesday and Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School on Thursday. VOID/BREAKER also leaves Game Preview on Wednesday. Elsewhere, ZA/UM’s ZERO PARADES: Director’s Cut reaches Xbox on Tuesday, Lightyear Frontier hits 1.0, and Season 1 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone kicks off on Friday. Here’s everything I could confirm, day by day.
Dates are UK dates. If you’re deciding what to put in your Game Pass queue, our Game Pass tiers guide shows what each plan includes.
Monday 2 November
- GRAVHOUNDS (Game Preview): a co-op action builder for one to four players. You drop on to hostile planets, build and defend a base, then extract with whatever you can carry. Xbox Series X|S and PC, in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass from day one, with Play Anywhere.
Tuesday 3 November
- ZERO PARADES: Director’s Cut: an espionage RPG from ZA/UM, the creators of Disco Elysium. You play a brilliant but troubled operative on one last assignment. Xbox Series X|S and PC, with Play Anywhere. Not on Game Pass.
- Pit of Goblin: a co-op dungeon crawl for up to four goblins, scavenging crypts and caverns to feed a ravenous King Queen. Xbox Series X|S and PC, in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass from day one, with Play Anywhere.
- Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered: the monster arena brawler remastered, with local co-op and new online multiplayer. Xbox Series X|S. Not on Game Pass.
- Also out: Bowling Alley Simulator (Xbox Series X|S), a management sim about running your own alley, and Kitties on Planets (Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S), a puzzle game starring two astronaut cats.
Wednesday 4 November
- VOID/BREAKER 1.0: the roguelite FPS leaves Game Preview. It’s already in PC Game Pass, and Xbox Wire lists the 1.0 release in Game Pass, so it should be in Game Pass Ultimate as well. At the time of writing the UK Microsoft Store listing still only shows PC, so check it before you plan to play on console.
- Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE: Netmarble’s action RPG based on the Solo Leveling webtoon comes to Xbox Series X|S at midnight UK time, following its PC release last year. Not on Game Pass.
- Lightyear Frontier 1.0: the open-world mech farming game leaves Game Preview after more than two years. Xbox Series X|S and PC, with Play Anywhere, and the Microsoft Store lists Xbox Cloud Gaming too. Not currently on Game Pass.
- The End of the Sun: a first-person mystery about a Slavic fire mage investigating a village caught in a time rift. Xbox Series X|S, and the Microsoft Store lists Xbox Cloud Gaming too. Not on Game Pass.
- Also out: Outbreak: Dead City, a zombie shooter, and We are Eva, a dimension-hopping 2D platformer, plus the puzzle games Hidden Cats in Beijing and Honey Route. All four are on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
Thursday 5 November
- Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School: the escape-room puzzle sequel, set on a new campus, playable solo or in online or local co-op. Xbox Series X|S and PC, in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass from day one.
- The Slormancer: a loot-heavy action RPG with three classes and procedurally generated dungeons. Xbox Series X|S and PC, with Play Anywhere. Not on Game Pass.
- MANIC MINER: a rebuilt version of Matthew Smith’s 1983 ZX Spectrum platformer. Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with Play Anywhere. Not on Game Pass.
- Faraway: Annapurna’s procedurally generated arcade game about a shooting star that makes constellations to stay alive. Xbox Series X|S and PC, with Play Anywhere. Not on Game Pass.
- Also out: Dark Alley, Dominus Gladiatus, Next of Kin: Epiphany, GeoJelly, Cat-Astrophy, Cat on the Jungle Path, Math Duck+ and the 3D platformer Starlit World.
Friday 6 November
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1: the first season starts at 5am UK time. Our Season 1 guide has the details.
- Shelterra the Skyworld: KEMCO’s classic fantasy RPG set on a floating continent. Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with Play Anywhere. Not on Game Pass. We covered it when pre-orders opened.
- Chicken Invaders Collection: all five main Chicken Invaders episodes and their seasonal editions, remastered in widescreen. Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with Play Anywhere. Not on Game Pass.
- Also out: the survival horror SEEK (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC), the first-person horror Don’t Be Afraid 2: Escape the Nightmare, the tower defence game BEACONFALL, Ice Cream Simulator and Sora – Oasis Treasures.
Saturday 7 November
I couldn’t find any Xbox releases confirmed for Saturday.
Sunday 8 November
Nothing confirmed for Sunday either, so the weekend is a good time to catch up on the week’s releases.
Pick of the week
On paper, ZERO PARADES: Director’s Cut is the biggest new release of the week. It’s the espionage RPG from ZA/UM, the studio behind Disco Elysium, and Tuesday is its Xbox debut. It isn’t on Game Pass, so if you’d rather play something included with your subscription, Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School arrives on Thursday in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.
Everything above comes from Xbox Wire’s Next Week on Xbox post, plus announcements from Activision, Netmarble and FRAME BREAK, all checked against the UK Microsoft Store listings. Release dates can still change. For how Play Anywhere works, see our Play Anywhere guide.
